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Still unexpected in a way, I really thought she would reach 119

Lucille Randon dead at 118, 3 weeks before turning 119.

79 today ! Thomas Dutronc said recently that she's frail and has no good quality of life but that her cancer is in remission…

Bush Sr. ? Hawking of course but Bush Sr was president for just one mandate and was not one of the most influential US politician. I’d say it’s a tie between Hawking and Franklin for me…

2018 has to be Aretha Franklin right ?

I’ve heard of the Isdal lady before, interesting and quite strange story true ! I’d looove to know ! I remember some site claiming it could have been Oscar Wilde but don’t remember why exactly. I’m pretty sure the perpetrator bas been suspected and maybe even interrogated before.

Completely forgot about it but new year new round ! The last year was a tie between @Khthonia and @MortalCaso with 2 hits each congrats ! Now, how long untill the first hit of 2023 ? Let’s vote !

French academy of moral and politic sciences contains 55 people divided as follow : Philosophy section - Chantal Delsol (b. 1947) - Alain Besançon (b. 1932) - Bernard Bourgeois (b. 1929) - Olivier Houdé (b. 1963) - Daniel Handler (b. 1946) - Claudine Tiercelin (b. 1952) - Rémi Brague (b. 1947) - Bernard Saint-Sernin (b. 1931) Sociology and moral section : - Luc Ravel (b. 1957) - Pierre Brunel (b. 1939) - Marianne Bastrid Bruguière (b. 1940) - Jean François Mattei (b. 1943) - Xavier Darcos (b. 1947) - Haïm Korsia (b. 1963) Public law and legislation section : - Yves Gaudemet (b. 1946) - Bruno Cotte (b. 1945) - Serge Sur (b. 1944) - Bernard Stirn (b. 1952) - Louis Vogel (b. 1954) - Gilbert Guillaume (b. 1930) - François Terré (b. 1930) - Pierre Delvolvé (b. 1940) Economy, Politic, Statistic and finance section : - Denis Kessler (b. 1952) - Michel Pébereau (b. 1942) - Pierre André Chiappori (b. 1955) - Dominique Senequier (b. 1953) - Jean Claude Casanova (b. 1934) - Marcel Boiteux (b. 1922) - Yvon Gattaz (b. 1925) - Jean Tirole (b. 1953) History and Geography section : - George Henri Soutou (b. 1943) - Jean Robert Pitte (b. 1949) - François d’Orcival (b. 1943) - Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie (b. 1929) - Éric Roussel (b. 1951) - Alain Duhamel (b. 1940) - Jean Tulard (b. 1933) Général section : - Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc (b. 1938) - André Vacheron (b. 1933) - Jean David Levitte (b. 1946) - Pierre Mazeaud (b. 1929) - Gabriel de Broglie (b. 1931) - Jean Claude Trichet (b. 1942) - Thierry de Montbrial (b. 1943) - Jacques de Larosière (b. 1929) - Hervé Gaymard (b. 1960) Foreigner associates : - King Charles III (b. 1948) - Hassan of Jordanie (b. 1947) - Stephen Breyer (b. 1938) - Wolfgang Schwauble (b. 1942) - Ismaïl Kadaré (b. 1936) - Mario Mari (b. 1943) - Dóra Bakoyánni (b. 1954) - Juan Carlos Ier (b. 1938) - Jean Claude Juncker (b. 1954) Vacant places : - Benedict XVI (d. 2022) in foreigner associates - Javier Perez de Cuellar (d. 2020) in foreigner associates - Christian Poncelet (d. 2020) in general section - Philippe Levillain (d. 2021) in history and geography - Jean Baechler (d. 2022) in moral and sociology - Mireille Delmas-Marty (d. 2022) in moral and sociology The oldest ones are Marcel Boiteux and Yvon Gattaz. Wonder who will be the next one to go.

Isn’t the German paedophile (Bruckner or something like that ?) the main suspect for it ? I tried John Cannan in the AO pool but he wasn’t accepted. I can see him being in several DDP thème though

maybe we'll see him at his daughter's funeral

Oh ! also, the disappearance of Lars Mittank from Varna Airport in 2014. You can see him running away from… something or someone on the video above. He was never seen again and no one knows why he didn't take the plane he was supposed to take.

I'm pretty sure he did yes… I don't see why she would have swam around the boat at night. Worth notting Christopher Walken was on board when she died, something that I learned quite recently. He admitted that Wagner and Wood got into a fight the night she died. He must know much more than he really tells. Concerning Louis Le Prince and Zigmund Adamski, I never heard of them and I'll have a look thanks ! And for D.B Cooper, I don't have a single opinion on this but probably a random air pirate right ?

is he on the immortal list ? or is he just an attention seeker as Ulitzer mentioned ?

Solo hit and one point for you then, congrats ! Jonnie Irwin in then

Don’t know if it was mentionned yet but she died following medicine overdosis and her family asked the medical team to not resuscitate her (she did several heart attack before)

La Repubblica confirmed it 25 min ago. 3rd breaking News in France. Would have been a great foreign call for the list in term of fame edit : a DDP pick of mine

Really sad… loved her… +1 for my list though

Why fake News ?

The first one would have to be Michael Jackson I think. I was 10. I remember that there was the Paris-Rio Air France Crash some weeks before and this was the two things that I recall from that summer. I have vivid memories of my mother telling me to switch on the TV cause Jackson was announced dead. It was a really hot summer Where I lived. I think I also remember the death of Pavarotti, a day or two after my grandmother one but I’m not sure if it is a « a posterio » mental association or if I was really aware of it back then. annie girardot back in 2011 was another early one I can remember

Yeah but someone is famous because he/she has made something significant which brings him/her fame at one point. We don’t need obit to know who’s famous and who’s not, proof is we know someone is famous or not while they’re alive

Yeah I get it in the case of Taka but this obsession of getting a « qualifying obit » is weird to me. Of course not believing any wiki edit or a death rumour online is evident. I get the very purpose of obit ofc but this Chase of the perfect one… AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS BECAUSE I’M FRENCH THAT I THINK THAT WAY BECAUSE IN FRANCE IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY

Why does it mean that they read this forum ? also, Why is obituary so important ? Is this an english thing or a forum thing ? I don’t get it but I (and maybe it’s because I’m french, I don’t know) Absolutely don’t care about an obituary. The people is announced dead by the family anyway so this is What is important, What does an obituary add ? It’s not like if the fame of the people depend on the obituary right ? I saw french people being announced dead here long before they got an obituary from any newspaper (Dominique Marcas for example, died last year at 101 and still hasn’t been mentioned in any newspaper or site) but that doesn’t mean that they’re not famous (Marcas was a bit famous fe). I don’t get the thing with obituary, for example forbiding certain site or newspaper in the DDP is completely incompréhensible to me.

I know. It was a bad call but it sounded grim and he disappeared for some months on all social media. plus, he didn’t look really good in this picture from october (at least for someone in his 20´s)

Dick Cheney